Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs/News (July 27 2023) for CSS

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July 27, 2023: National Current Affairs MCQs News

6. Resolution seeking to counter hate speech adopted by UNGA

• The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution, calling for countering hate speech and deploring attacks on places of worship, religious symbols and holy books.
• The Moroccan resolution, entitled `Promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech`, was adopted by consensus. It was co-sponsored by Pakistan.
• It won the approval in the 193-member UNGA amid growing acts of desecration ofthe Holy Quran

7. Hun Sen to hand over power to son next month

• Cambodia`s Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday he would step down and hand over power to his son next month, ending a near four-decade reign during which he established stability after years of war but stifled democracy in the process.
• One of the world`s longest ruling leaders, Hun Sen made the announcement days after his Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP) won 120 of 125 parliamentary seats in a general election from which all serious opponents were banished.
• `I met the king, and declared I won`t continue the position as prime minister anymore,` Hun Sen said in a nationally televised address

8. Niger president taken captive in `coup attempt`

• Presidential guards were holding Niger President Mohamed Bazoum inside his palace in the capital Niamey on Wednesday in what neighbouring countries called an attempted coup, but which the presidency described as an `anti-republican` movement `in vain`.
• West Africa`s main regional and economic bloc ECOWAS said it was concerned about an attempted coup d`etat and called on the plotters to free Bazoum. The African Union (AU) also condemned what it called a coup attempt and urged the `felon` soldiers involved to return to barracks immediately

9. Modi govt faces no-trust vote over Manipur strife

• India`s parliament on Wednesday authorised a no-confidence vote against Narendra Modi`s government by an alliance of opposition parties, to force the prime minister to address in detail concerns about ethnic clashes in Manipur, a state in the north-east.
• Modi`s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a clear majority of 301 members in the 542-seat lower house of parliament, so the noconfidence vote will not affect its stability. The opposition instead wants to trigger a debate about violence in the remote, BJP-ruled Manipur state, where more than 130 people have been killed and 60,000 displaced since early May

10. Erdogan meets Palestinian president, Hamas leader

• Turkiye`s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday spoke in Ankara with the Palestinian president and the head of Hamas in the run-up to a crucial meeting of Palestinian factions set for the weekend.
• Erdogan, who has good ties with Mahmud Abbas of the Fatah party and Hamas`s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, has said his government will do its best to push for intra Palestinian reconciliation